True Detective Season 3.2 Review: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Having found Will's body and fearing the worst about Julie, Hayes and West start following every lead possible. They talk to everyone who works with Tom Purcell at Wilson's Bodyworks where they make parts for schoolhouses, they talk with the Purcell's extended family, where they find out that Tom's mother thinks Julie might not be his child. Most notably they talk to Dan O'Brien, Lucy's brother who presumably drilled that peep hole in Will's closet. But all of these leads turn up nothing.

It's only when Hayes invests the help of his future-wife Amelia after an emergency town meeting that they get a lead. Armed with a picture of the mademade dolls that were left near the site of Will's body, a young friend of Julie's reveals to Amelia and later Hayes and West that he believes Julie was given one of the dolls on Halloween.

After a convincing Star Wars lightsaber impersonation from Hayes, he and West take it to their superiors, specifically Greg Larson, who Hayes believes foolishly squanders their only lead by reporting it on the news, which interrupts his unofficial date with Amelia.

Following a lead from a Vice Cop, Hayes and West track down a man with a prior conviction in regards to who is going by an alias, but while he's violating his parole, he has a credible alibi.\

The pair get called back to the Purcell home where a note has been delivered:

Much like the detectives throughout its second episode, True Detective leaves its audience frustrated and almost bored as Hayes and West trudge through a series of unfulfilling leads in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.

Rating: 2.5/5